Really cool being able to see the status with the lights. And the cool dialup sound of course.

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    Hah, no one alive back then is going to miss spotting that. I knew it would say Hayes before I clicked. 😁

    My first modem: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1644

    And my second: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1647

    I was so excited when I got the 1200 because I could no longer easily read faster than the BBS output. I always wished I had a Hayes though, because back then the red LEDs were so damn cool. 🙂 😎

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        I always envied the Compuserve folks - the most “online” I got during my C64 days was QuantumLink (which would go on to become AOL) - Compuserve was real internet to me for a long time, but I was never a customer. More or less the same as I felt about Prodigy.

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        It was a versatile port. You could connect standard parallel devices with physical adapters, but it had other uses as well.

        https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/User_Port

        I have everything but the monitor in my basement. One of these days I need to get mine running. :)